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United Airlines offers service to more than 350 destinations in about 60 countries. The airline's parent company, United Continental Holdings, is based in Chicago, where O'Hare International Airport is one of United's nine hubs. The airline was founded in 1929 when William Boeing, Frederick Rentschler and their associates founded United Aircraft Transport Corp., a conglomerate of aircraft manufacturing and air transport. In 1930, United became the first airline to employ stewardesses on its flights. In 1994, United employees bought a 55 percent share of the airline, making it the nation's largest employee-owned company. United Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2002, and it emerged from bankruptcy in 2006. United merged with Continental Airlines in 2010, and operations were rebranded under the United name in March 2012. United transported more than 139 million passengers in 2013.

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According to several...

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